Norton Internet Security 2008 Beta

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(3 replies) #1 Lee® on 04 Jul 2007 - 20:52

More bloat.

#1.1 +nezermundy on 04 Jul 2007 - 20:58

Actually 2007 was better than 2006 on resources, hopefully 2008 will be better on resources than 2007.

#1.2 Raa on 05 Jul 2007 - 06:07

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Uhh..... No. It wasn't.

#1.3 Draganta on 05 Jul 2007 - 15:56

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Grab the fishing line and let me reel you into version 2007. Hold on tight now.

#2 mkol on 04 Jul 2007 - 20:58

Scary

#3 th3rEsa on 04 Jul 2007 - 21:05

"Is this better than ZoneAlarm?" *runs away quickly*

#4 +warwagon on 04 Jul 2007 - 21:11

its scary when they keep adding new features to an already bloated piece of crap. Though whats even worse is that the mcafee security has more processes than norton, and thats pretty bad.

(3 replies) #5 adversedeviant on 05 Jul 2007 - 00:59

maybe in reality we all just have too slow of computers for norton software.

#5.1 XeonBuilder on 05 Jul 2007 - 02:51

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"Minimum System requirements... Quad Core, 4GB and 2GB HD " Maybe that will cover it? lol

#5.2 +warwagon on 05 Jul 2007 - 04:46

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QFT

#5.3 Raa on 05 Jul 2007 - 06:07

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+1 to that!

(1 reply) #6 buletov on 05 Jul 2007 - 07:34

I think that usual spyware and adware on people's computers take less system resources than Norton does.

#6.1 SlimShady on 05 Jul 2007 - 10:08

lol

(2 replies) #7 Draganta on 05 Jul 2007 - 10:08

Never had any problems with their products. I use it exclusively. 2008 seems to be a touched up version of 2007 with some added features. Not worth the upgrade cost from 2007 IMO. My system starts pretty quick and I have Pentium 4 3GHz and 1GB memory.

#7.1 MrCobra on 05 Jul 2007 - 14:28

I have two systems (C2Q & Dual AMD FX-F4) I tried the 2007 version on. Both systems were clean XP installs with nothing but N2007 and they booted slow and ran slower overall.

#7.2 midway40 on 05 Jul 2007 - 14:39

I also have NIS '07 and it runs great too. I too have a P4 3GHz with 1.5GB RAM running on Vista Ultimate 32bit. The Dell came with NIS '04 (bought it in May '04) and it was such a hog on the system I uninstalled it and vowed never to use Norton again. But I read some good reviews on the '07 on a security forum a couple of months ago so I bit the bullet and installed the NIS '07 trial. I was so impressed (and surprised) with it I bought it after 3 days into the trail period.

People who are calling it bloatware are behind the times as they haven't even tried '07. Vista's task manager identified 5 processes belonging to Symantec using 7.2MB RAM total. Detection is a decent 96%, solid firewall, and no false positives according two AV testing organizations (AV-Test.org, AV Comparatives).

I might give this Beta a whirl when I get home.

#8 - Kaboose - on 05 Jul 2007 - 15:54

@midway.....in this day and age...96% detection doesnt make the cut....u need atleast 98% to feel protected in my case...thats the whole point of spyware and adware in general...to creep past the 96% detection rating....im sorry but nortons products have always been ''dollied up bloatware'' with unpromising features....my advice is go either with NOD32 or kaspersky....

even so said...i have to say that norton does a gd job of trying to promote their products...just a shame that disappointment will follow after a norton purchase

#9 WeezulDK on 05 Jul 2007 - 16:05

Norton branded products were great when it was Peter Norton doing the selling.

The minute that Symantec got a hold of it, the Norton brand went to hell.

The only "Norton" product I use (and even then it's disabled most of the time) is Norton/Symantec Antivirus Corporate. Even then, I'm still wondering why I even have it installed.

#10 smackholio on 06 Jul 2007 - 19:02

In my opinion, the 2007 version totally got rid of most of the 'bloat', but not enough to satisfy some of you here. For me, it was great on my P4. I'll admit it though, the 2003-2006 versions were complete pieces of bloated crap. Once 2007 came out, it was a reversal of those previous years. I don't doubt though that there are people that still have performance problems with 2007, and you should probably stick with your NOD / AVG / Kaspersky / etc. I don't think Symantec will ever please some of you until it's down to using only 1 MB of RAM and 1 process for everything it does, and get 100% detection rates. As it is, about 10mb of RAM and 5 processes is a certain improvement over previous years.

Here's to hoping that 2008 improves on 2007 in performance and in detection rates...

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